BoringSupreez wrote:
Unfortunately, corned beef is not something you can just wake up and decide to make. Stupid thing has to sit for 3 weeks. If you make it yourself though, it's better than store-bought.
Nah. I've been making corned beef, albeit store bought, that rivals anyone's homemade brisket. I have friends who used to hate corned beef until they tried mine. I will be a corned beef braggart on this one.
I think the main thing is how you cook the beef. Most people I know boil it, which is just wrong. I take a large glass baking dish and fill it up with about an inch deep of water. Place a rack on that, but the corned beef fat side up on that, cover with foil and bake at 350 for 45 per pound. Then, turn the broiler on, remove foil, and cook for an additional fifteen minutes. Corned beef heaven I tell ya.